TAXI fares may be going up soon – with or without Mayor Bloomberg’s approval.

Sources on the Taxi and Limousine Commission said five of the nine commissioners are prepared to enact a fare hike at the next TLC meeting, as early as next month.

“Any time they call a meeting, there’ll be a fare increase,” declared one TLC source. “Right now, the mayor might not control the commission.”

Four of the TLC members are appointed by the mayor; the remaining five by the City Council.

Bloomberg has been stalling the vote for obvious reasons – he hardly needs to absorb another political hit for boosting taxi fares at a time when many voters are still upset about increases in the property, income and sales taxes.

But the taxi industry has apparently convinced the five TLC members not appointed by the mayor that the current fare structure – last revised in 1996 – is badly outmoded.

The Bloomberg administration needs the TLC board to sign off on the sale of 900 new taxi medallions, so a meeting has to be scheduled before the end of the fiscal year on June 30.

One insider said the rebellious, pro-fare hike TLC members aren’t prepared to wait that long.

“If there’s no meeting in January, the five commissioners will consider calling their own meeting,” said the insider.

In the end, Bloomberg might even go along with a hike tied to passenger improvements, the insider added.

Sources said Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall, who was appointed to the board by the mayor, has become his point person on taxis, overshadowing TLC chairman Matthew Daus.

*

Two weeks ago it was reported that Abraham Wasserman, an unsuccessful Brooklyn City Council candidate, had hired four family members as “consultants” in a race where he finished dead last in a field of four.

But Wasserman has now had a change of heart after the payouts were exposed in The Post.

Wasserman’s wife and three sons were to be paid $13,000 of the $15,958 he had raised, according to campaign reports filed several weeks ago – but new amended filings this week show only two family members collecting $4,500.

*

Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff owns tiny pieces of seven New York City commercial buildings, including some on the West Side not far from the newly planned Jets stadium he’s pushing.

The Conflicts of Interest Board has had nearly two years to examine Doctoroff’s holdings – but has still not issued a ruling.

In a previous ruling, the board ordered Mayor Bloomberg to get rid of all his holdings in individual stocks. Insiders are waiting to see if that same tough standard is applied to Doctoroff.

A spokeswoman for Doctoroff said all his holdings are in a blind trust so he doesn’t even know if the properties remain in his portfolio.